The Cape Codder Letters

Friday

Jul 27, 2018 at 3:01 AM

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BAD MOVE

Reading in The Cape Codder's July 20 edition, Orleans plans to have in their town every possible type of pot that's possible -- manufacturing, growing, stores, back yards.

What normal American family would want to buy property in Orleans? Common sense will tell you it's the wrong move for Orleans. It will only cause more problems for the police; whatever dirty money they get from the pot they will spend in hiring more police

The smart people are in Chatham. Dennis and Harwich. They will benefit from this crazy decision being made by the people in the town of Orleans.

This is not the same town we bought into back in 1985. Look at all the vacant buildings in town, like at Shaw's plaza, two of the bast locations in town (empty). You can ask any business in town how their business is and they will tell you not good.

Look at Nauset Beach -- not as many people going there as before. They didn't even try to help Mr. John, who ran Liam's, get started again. What we have there now is something you would see at a circus.

Liam's was as much a part of Nauset Beach as the beach itself. The people paying the big taxes that make this town run will soon get wise to the people running this town.

Have you driven by Snows Library, and gone over probably the worst patch job we have ever experienced?

If we were running this town we would have whoever did that job come back, tear it up and redo it. The town is more concerned with pot shops than fixing all the problems the town has.

Peter and Marie Obrien

Orleans

GOOD MAN

Many years ago I worked for a government agency that was going to eliminate our jobs.

I contacted Rep. Delahunt's office and spoke to Mark Forest.

He personally saved my job, with one phone call.

Mark Forest has spent many years in different positions, helping people on Cape Cod, like me.

Brewster is fortunate in having such a man.

Walter Quinn

Brewster

Editor's Note: Mark Forest was named interim town administrator in Brewster last week.

COMMON SENSE

In a rare display of common sense, our Massachusetts lawmakers rejected the cryptically named Safe Communities bill. This legislation would have ended our Barnstable County Sheriff's 287(g) agreement with ICE, instead releasing dangerous criminal illegal aliens back into our cape community.

Our sheriff netted 10 inmates in June alone and turned them over to ICE, several had been charged with assaults on minors. Cape families and law enforcement are safer from this bill's demise.

Illegal immigration is a problem caused by lax enforcement of our immigration laws designed to maintain public safety and limit the burden on taxpayers. It's a problem that has ballooned to 12.5 million illegal aliens, at an annual taxpayer cost of $116 billion, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. It's a problem that should not be handed down to our kids. We own it.

President Trump ran successfully on a promise to stop illegal immigration and has initiated the process of detention and deportation. While Massachusetts Democrats continue to push dangerous sanctuary policies, most Americans want the problem fixed rather than left as a burden on the next generation.